Plot: a young Chinese girl moves with her mother to Canada, where her father is already running his own restaurant. She begins to learn English and how to live like a white person, and soon Canada is more home to her than the memories of a distant hometown, which are fading day by day. When her older brother comes to work at the restaurant, things start changing. Her family begins to fall apart, no matter how she tries to keep it together.
Comments: I thought the young girl, Su-Jen - Annie - was very cute and had little life experience. I felt sorry for her as her life began to change. She viewed the world with innocence, and I hated that she had to grow up and see that not everything is good. I also didn't like her mother very much. Paying little attention to Su-Jen and even less to her husband, she wasn't exactly the nicest person I've ever met. And when Su-Jen's brother came to town, everything got worse. Lee Kung was not willing to be the dutiful Chinese son his father had expected him to be. Arguing with his father and forming an alliance with his bitter mother, Lee Kung was the beginning of the end.
Su-Jen survives many hard things; racism, loss of friends and family, and life in general. This is her sad story. Delicately written with elegance and beauty, but not covering up the not-so-beautiful things in life. Not a light read, but not exactly deep, either.
Rating: I rate this book a seven out of ten.
Comments: I thought the young girl, Su-Jen - Annie - was very cute and had little life experience. I felt sorry for her as her life began to change. She viewed the world with innocence, and I hated that she had to grow up and see that not everything is good. I also didn't like her mother very much. Paying little attention to Su-Jen and even less to her husband, she wasn't exactly the nicest person I've ever met. And when Su-Jen's brother came to town, everything got worse. Lee Kung was not willing to be the dutiful Chinese son his father had expected him to be. Arguing with his father and forming an alliance with his bitter mother, Lee Kung was the beginning of the end.
Su-Jen survives many hard things; racism, loss of friends and family, and life in general. This is her sad story. Delicately written with elegance and beauty, but not covering up the not-so-beautiful things in life. Not a light read, but not exactly deep, either.
Rating: I rate this book a seven out of ten.
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